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NETPAC Jury Prize winner and QCinema Film Festival finalist Dog Days will have its international premiere at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands starting January 30. With its … Continue Reading QCinema Finalist Premieres at the 48th Internationoal Film Festival Rotterdam
2019 has just started and Cinemalaya’s sci-fi entry just dropped its first teaser, a featurette rather, of what the film would be. Check out 01 and 02 introducing us to the future, … Continue Reading #Cinemalaya2019 Entry ‘Ani The Harvest’ Welcomes Us to the Future
A film project from the Philippines stood out and won the prestigious Cre8 Co-Production Award during the Southeast Asia Film Financing Forum (SAFF) Project Market, beating out 15 projects from … Continue Reading Political Thriller Film Project ‘Filipino’ Wins Top Prize at Singapore Project Market
Man’s fight for survival against a super typhoon is front and center in John Stephen Baltazar’s The Signs which is featured in FDCP’s Cine Lokal theaters in SM starting December 7. The Signs tells … Continue Reading Natural Disaster Flick ‘The Signs’ Now Showing at Cine Lokal Cinemas
What do you get when three bumbling “holdaper”-wanna-be’s aspire to get a piece of the biggest heist of their lives? With “ANG PANGARAP KONG HOLDAP”, it’s an hour and a half … Continue Reading R-Rated Comdey ‘Ang Pangarap Kong Holdap’ is a Gritty Humor Served in an All-Pinoy Platter
First featured as a stage play in 2015 and 2016, now, Juan Miguel Severo’s ‘Hintayan ng Langit’ is a full-length film starring veteran actors Eddie Garcia and Gina Pareño. But … Continue Reading The Journey of ‘Hintayan ng Langit’ from Play to Film
It’s not easy to adapt theatrical plays especially for a movie with a budget of a film festival here in the Philippines. But if Dan Villegas got to do it … Continue Reading Dan Villegas on Adapting Juan Miguel Severo’s ‘Hintayan ng Langit’
The MAGINHAWA FILM FESTIVAL (MFF) returns for its second edition this coming December. The Festival is an initiative of CINEMA CENTENARIO, the premier alternative cinema of Quezon City along food … Continue Reading Best Films of 2018 Featured in the 2nd Maginhawa Film Festival
After its successful Philippine participation in Busan International Film Festival at Busan, South Korea, the Film Development Council of the Philippines leads the country again as Country of Focus at the … Continue Reading Philippines is Country of Focus at Singapore Media Festival 2018
It’s not for the faint of heart. You may call Benedict Mique’s Cinemalaya 2018 hit ML a challenge for its disturbing choices of how to present what really happened during Martial Law to … Continue Reading Terrors of the Past Brought to the Present in Benedict Mique’s “ML”
This coming December, Cinema Centenario celebrates its first anniversary dedicated to pay tribute to the core foundation of its existence, the one hundred years of Philippine Cinema, by launching the … Continue Reading Cinema Centenario to Launch 2nd Maginhawa Film Festival this December, Calls for Entries
Here are the winners of the Quezon City International Film Festival (QCinema) 2018: Circle Audience Choice: Hintayan ng Langit Gender Sensitivity Award: Billie & Emma Circle Best Artistic Contribution: Oda … Continue Reading LIST: Winners of the QCinema International Film Festival 2018
With a little push and with an ample dose of enablers, creativity takes form. Organizers of QCinema International Film Festival (QCinema) know this too well. For its sixth edition, QCinema … Continue Reading 2018 Grantees Take Center Stage in QCinema
Original. The word, and all its permutations, has been a significant part of the festival name for the last 13 years. Originality has always been the one thing Cinema One … Continue Reading Cinema One Originals 2018 Will Run October 12 – 21
World renowned Filipino film director Brillante Mendoza is back in the international scene with his newest film “ALPHA, The Right to Kill” competing in the main competition at San Sebastian … Continue Reading Brillante Mendoza’s ALPHA, The Right To Kill Competes at San Sebastian
“Some truths are so twisted you can’t face them.” This year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival will feature a sports erotic drama starring Tony Labrusca (Cinemalaya 2018’s “ML”) as Badger … Continue Reading #C1Originals 2018: Tony Labrusca, Joem Bascon Star in Sports Erotic Drama “Double Twisting Double Back”
